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- Ambitious Enterprises Ally Peltier is an excellent editor/consultant for your writers looking for professional guidance.
- Baseball Panoramic Rob Noel’s great site takes you on virtual tours of MLB and historic ballparks
- David Stinson's author blog Please visit my buddy and fellow author David Stinson’s site. He has a real eye for baseball’s past; in fact, he sees it!
- Deadball Baseball Based on David Stinson’s novel, Deadball: A Metaphysical Baseball Novel
- History: Preserved This is a wonderful blog that often covers the home front during World War II, especially the recipes that were used to compensate for rationing. i had the privilege of meeting the author, Sarah Lee, at the 2017 WIlliamsport World War II Weekend.
- Off the Beaten Basepaths & other videos OTBB takes you to baseball treasures that are little known, underappreciated, or simply off the beaten basepaths! Subscribe now through Youtube so you don’t miss an episode.
- Places We Have Played Album My non-genetic twin, Al Smith, and I like to play in as many interesting ballparks, big and small, as we can find. Here’s our “collection.”
- Sarah Sundin Sarah is a World War II romance novelist who gets her history correct! Lots of good information on her blog.
- Seamheads Best baseball blog on the ‘Net!
- Summer Game Books The website of my publisher. (Hey, it felt good to write that!)
- The Official Webpage for Boots Poffenberger: Hurler, Hero, Hell-Raiser Visit the Summer Game Books page for my biography of Boots Poffenberger. Order from there and view the book trailer (to be posted soon!)
- Winchester Book Gallery A wonderful independent book store that is a fun place to shop in the Old Town Mall in Winchester. Christine and her staff are just plain nice people!
- Your Little Windmill My younger daughter, Sarah, has started a blog about her journey through love and Life. Well-written and insightful, and I’m saying that as a writer and not as her dad.
Category Archives: Baseball in General
The Hope of the Summer to Come
If you’re a baseball fan, Spring Training is one of the grand times of the year, maybe even the grandest. Hope grows in the warm Florida (or Arizona) sun and it becomes easy to construct scenarios by which even your … Continue reading
Phony Outrage Over Astros Scandal
I am sick of the self-righteous blathering about how the Houston Astros cheated. Cody Bellinger, if you were suddenly traded to Houston, you’d gladly accept the Astros paycheck. And, hey, New York: When you quit regarding Jeffery Maier as a … Continue reading
Enough With MLB Gimmicks; Try This Post-Season Idea
Yet again, Major League Baseball (MLB) has resorted to gimmicks by which to alter post-season play. If MLB wants each league’s playoffs to include seven teams, then dividing teams into divisions is itself a gimmick, and it reduces the chances … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball in General
Tagged College World Series, Major League Baseball, MLB, MLB post-season, Rob Manfred
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Restructuring the Minor Leagues is Long Overdue
Baseball for me has always been about the stories, and one of the game’s best, archetypal story is the ballplayer out there in some dusty ballpark in some small American town, who gets discovered by some world-weary scout who takes … Continue reading
The Spirit of the Man
One week ago this evening (August 12, 2019) I attended “Mo’s 10th Inning,” which was the posthumous party Mo Weber threw for his friends, complete with endless trays of shrimp and an open bar. Laughter erupted constantly in various corners … Continue reading
R.I.P. Mo Weber
Last Friday, I received news that my baseball mentor and good friend, Mo Weber had died. Mo lived a good long life, having just turned 96 on June 24th of this year. I wrote about him in three different books, … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball in General, New Market Rebels
Tagged Mo Weber, New Market Rebels, Valley Baseball League
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Huntingburg, Indiana Is a Championship Town
We Americans currently focus on our divisions so much that we are blind to the good that people do for one another. By way of illustration, I give you the Dubois County Bombers of Huntingburg, Indiana. The Bombers are one … Continue reading
